murmuration

A flock of starlings is also known as a 'murmuration'.

Some experts have observed "a murmuration," as a flock of starlings is called, numbering a million or more.

An "imprint" bird like mine, raised from infancy, can never join a starling murmuration.

On his second day home a murmuration of blacksuited Puritans infested his living room.

This week we'd love to see your starling photos so add your murmuration photos on photo group discussion.

A murmuration of starlings gathers over Burgundy, France before landing in the trees for the night.

Share your murmuration hotspots by commenting below and watch out for some spectacular starling footage in this week's Unsprung.

I particularly remember the starling murmuration footage and mouse/vole/shrew interractions in the last programme.

A flock of starlings is euphoniously called a "murmuration," but there is nothing poetic about their appetites.

This was the true murmuration, an entity unto itself, to which Raven Starling, had her fate not crossed with ours, would have belonged.

It all prompts the same questions as a sudden swooping, squawking murmuration of starlings: where are they all coming from?

A murmuration of starlings (video)

A few years ago I saw a nice murmuration in the Lea Valley country park, near the Bittern Hide.

The people lining the windows of the corridors were talking, their tone quietly excited, reminding me of a murmuration of starlings along a telephone wire.

We drove along, and then somewhere along the Thruway, above a vast pasture, we saw them, a murmuration of starlings, thousands of birds.

Murmuration of Starlings (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008)

Somerset Wildlife Trust's Westhay Moor has a starling murmuration hotline you can call to find out where to see them.

Starling supporters insist that it isn't, that the starling kills so many destructive insects; a murmuration should elicit a chorus of praise.

Ryan Davies: "A murmuration of starlings about to settle for the night in front of a beautiful sunset at Aberystwyth, Wales."

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Natasha Trethewey described A Murmuration of Starlings as "a fierce, beautiful, necessary book.

Quiet - the kind where you can only hear the murmuration of bees and the music of birds - must be one of the most treasured features of any garden.

But from somewhere he could hear the sound of female voices - a sound that was not in the least like the twittering of birds, strong earnest talk rather than a murmuration.

The clearing ended where a derelict stone building, roofless and black with spreading moss, held back a grove of leafless elms, where a murmuration of starlings was gathered.

His sophomore book, A Murmuration of Starlings, won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry and was published through the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.

A Murmuration of Starlings in a Rowan Tree': Finding Gary Snyder in Paula Meehan's Eco-Political Poetics."